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telecide 

A vehicular death resulting from driver distraction while talking, texting or tweeting. The penalty for this crime is life imprisonment in a phone cell.
Having finished applying her mascara, the driver of the car tweeted her friends to let them know she was finished, failing to notice that she was fast approaching a school crossing. The driver was arrested on a charge of vehicular telecide. The funerals of the four victims will be on Friday.
telecide by Blue Ridge Bubba July 31, 2009
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Telecide 

A generic term for long range fatal advances. IE: archery, spear throwing, tomahawk throwing, cannons, guns, crossbow, missile firing
The soldiers in the back mainly fight with methods of telecide.

In the battle of Agencourt, the English defeated the French because of their telecidal advancement of the longbow.

The technology of nuclear missiles provides armies the advantage of telecide.
Telecide by Dark Master87 June 5, 2009
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Telecide 

Person A: How about we watch some TV at your place?

Person B: I can't

Person A: Why?

Person B: I committed telecide when Justin Bieber won Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards
Telecide by Rasnodar December 10, 2010

telecine 

Telecine is a method to make an illegal bootleg copy of an original movie. Telecine method can be done in various ways, but normally it includes extracting the movie directly from the reel to digital format and then encoded into VCD, SVCD or DivX format. Not to be confused with 'Telesync', defined elsewhere on UrbanDictionary.
Many people in the industry pronounce this word "telli-sin-ee", however, others say it like "telli-seen".
I downloaded a telecine version of that new movie. THe quality is wayyy better than that crappy cam version!
telecine by Sean Scrivener January 4, 2005

telicident 

the falling of a smartphone on its user's face when he/she is lying down.
Guy: What happened to your face?
Girl: Oh, I had a telicident last night. It was horrible.
telicident by AcidicPuke October 5, 2016
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Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
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murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
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In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020
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